Chapter 26 cold night

Ziyan and Yanhua rode like flying, and after more than ten days, they left the border and entered the northern wilderness.This time they sailed from north to west, and then from south to east, determined to visit more than a hundred countries around them before returning to China. Yanyuguan city battlement is like, the two of them are rushing towards like clouds under the blue sky, charming red and emerald green, dressed in gorgeous clothes and ornaments attracting attention, even the guards are still dazzled by seeing all kinds of people.Ziyan and Yanhua were attracted by a caravan driving camels. The camels' towering humps, eyes with big copper bells, nostrils that kept opening and closing, and elegant and lazy expressions fascinated them. , pointed at the caravan with relish.

Ye Hua opened her eyes wide while talking and laughing, and wrinkled her nose slightly, "Ah, the fragrance of white cocoons!" He galloped to one of the camels, frowned and sniffed lightly.The hunchback of the caravan didn't know what she was trying to do, so he hurried forward to greet her, and Yanhua said at the beginning: "How much is this spice? I bought it." The hunchback froze for a moment, shook his head and said, "Not for sale!" Yanhua said, "Why don't you sell it? I can afford the price." The hunchback scratched his head in trouble, and the leader of the caravan drove over.He was wearing an inlaid gold embroidered skirt, a pointed beard hat, and a mustache that was proudly upturned. When he saw Yu Hua, he yelled: "I don't allow people to come near me, go, go!"

Yuhua was not forgiving, and pestered the man and said: "You are selling to anyone, so it is better to say a price." The mustache said contemptuously: "Two hundred gold, we can talk when you can afford it." Yuhua snorted coldly, Turning the horse's head around, he returned to Ziyan's side sullenly. Zi Yan vaguely heard their conversation, touched the money in the bag, it really wasn't enough.The two originally thought that with their own abilities, they could earn and spend money along the way without having to bring too much silver.The mustache's words made them suddenly enlightened. With the mentality of the two of them seeing Lie Xinxi, they will definitely see many treasures along the way. If they lack gold and silver, they will not be able to make ends meet.

Yan Hua murmured: "If I had known earlier, I should have been driving, what would I do riding a horse!" Immediately without saying a word, she went back to Yanyuguan to buy a carriage.Ziyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she picked a car with her, with red lacquer and green mantle, mixed with pearls and jade.He happily removed the saddles from their mounts, added two newly bought horses, and hurriedly equipped them with Jin, 靷, martingale, 靽, 鞧 and other carriages. She first sat in the compartment, thought about it, jumped to the driver's seat, and said to Zi Yan: "Let's sit outside together." Zi Yan took a slow look inside the compartment, and she was sitting on the tapestry brocade mat, wanting to compare It is comfortable to drive on bumps outside.Yanhua couldn't help but pat the seat beside her, "You think I'm good at driving? Come up, one person will drive two horses."

The two rushed out of the city on four horses. After catching up with the caravan, Yuhua bravely drove to the side of the leader, and said loudly, "Where are you going to trade? We will go too. If I can raise two hundred gold, you Sell ​​the white cocoon fragrance to me." Mustache looked at her a few times, saw her driving a ostentatious carriage, shook his head and said: "Fangheji is far away, you can't bear this hardship, I advise you to give up. This spice is requested by the king of Shensu. I can't sell it at will. Otherwise, you can choose individual spices, and I will sell them to you if you can sell them."

Yan Hua said coldly: "I have as many spices as Shen Tan and the like, as long as I want this white cocoon fragrance." Mustache twirled his beard thoughtfully, and the person beside him looked at the two of them for a long time, and whispered a few words in his ear, and Mustache said: "It doesn't matter if we take you together, we will take care of our own food and lodging along the way, life and death have nothing to do with us. If you have the ability, you can buy it with money." After finishing speaking, he rode his horse and leisurely returned to the leader's position.

Sitting contentedly in the driver's seat of the car, Yan Hua galloped wildly, as if her clothes were about to fly away.Zi Yan looked back at the empty carriage and wondered what would happen when she returned with a full load.He took a breath of the hard summer wind, and lowered the whip high. After more than ten days alone, the loneliness and peace of the past returned.After watering the vegetable field sideways, he looked in the direction of Taniguchi in a daze, somehow remembering the scene when he picked up Zi Yan.She rubbed her eyes, knowing that she would not see that smile for a long time, so she couldn't help but walked back to the house, fascinated by Ziyan's puppet.

After looking at it for a while, she thought, the clothes on the two dolls were worn out, she might as well make some new clothes.Just as he reached out his hand to take off the old clothes, his face suddenly became red, and he stole a glance at the mask.Forget it, she changed into new clothes after she sewed them up, she withdrew her hand in a beating heart, and finally quickly touched the puppet's face halfway, and fled out of the house. Because of longing, a person's life can also be like jade and smoke, with a vague and warm meaning. In addition to the antiques collected by Chen Xiangzi for many years, Dongtianzhai placed a lot of cloth and clothing, as well as the clothes that Ziyan originally brought.The dyed cake made of safflower picked with dew in the early morning was taken from the side, fried with ebony water, clarified several times, and dyed into four colors of lotus red, silver red, peach red, and water red according to the weight.I also selected a few pieces of gauze and dyed them one by one with various thin plates, such as wishful flowing water, concentric hibiscus, or hundreds of butterflies wearing flowers. Many patterns are red and white, just like the gorgeous sunset at dusk.

After drying the newly dyed silk on the rack, she went back to the well and picked out a silk that was covered with smoke and snow. After walking a few steps, there was a slight vibration in the hole, and the sound of hooves approaching from far away. , echoing crisply around.I thought to myself, could it be that Ziyan and Yuhua are back?Feeling that such a good thing will not happen, he hurried back the same way and climbed to the mouth of the well to look around. I saw a woman in fragrant clothes and a black horse galloping swiftly to the front of the house, and the pihan tin on the cloud servant girl was shining brightly in the distance.Taking a closer look from side to side, a red peony and gold-thread skirt is flamboyantly billowing, and the man has jumped off the horse vigorously.

"Is anyone there?" the man called into the room.Climbing out of the well sideways, the other party was slightly startled, and immediately calmly said: "Are you the daughter of Master Chen Xiang?" "Exactly..." "My name is Qiyu, and I'm from Wenxiufang." She raised her hand suddenly, throwing a floral cloth bag.Opened it sideways, it turned out to be an overpowering dragon robe, the needles were moved quietly and without any trace, and the background color was not exposed at all. Thinking to herself that this kind of weaving and embroidery methods cannot be done by one person alone, Qiyu saw through her mind, and smiled arrogantly: "I'm not afraid to tell you straight to the point, since you want to worship under the master of the workshop, you can't compare with other sisters, take You can’t convince the crowd if you don’t have the ability, and it’s embarrassing to enter the door. In the future, when you come to Wenxiufang, you only need to bring a dragon robe made by yourself. loom, I will send someone to send it into the valley.”

He was stunned for a moment, Xia Feng hit his face, feeling hot and dry intermittently.She took a few steps back and leaned against the edge of the well to sit down, spread the dragon robe on her legs, and looked at it carefully.Qiyu laughed secretly in her heart, this kind of dragon robe needs hundreds of weavers and embroiderers to work together for several months in Wenxiu workshop, even if it is embroidered by the workshop owner Qingluan, it will take more than a year.I heard that this girl has been self-taught so far, and she doesn't know how to handle the job by then. She took the rein leisurely, looked around the front door of the house, and inadvertently saw the new clothes being washed and dried on the pole, and her eyes lit up like Qiong Yao and beautiful jade.The colors and patterns are novel and unique, and the technique is sophisticated and skillful. It is rare to use a single color of red flowers to float out the depth and depth, which is obviously put with care. "You did this?" Qiyu's tone was much gentler, and when she stared sideways again, there was a faint smile on her brows and eyes. Nodding sideways, he continued to covet the embroidery on the dragon robe.She had never seen the decorations gathered by the twelve chapters, and she explored the meanings of the patterns.She looked humble and serious, and Qiyu was more fond of her. She walked over with a pleasant face, pointed to the dragon robe and said: "Sun, moon, star, mountain, dragon, and Chinese insects are woven in six chapters, and Zong Yi, Zao, fire, and rice , Fu, Fu six chapters are embroidered on the clothes, with clouds of five colors in between, you must not mess up when you embroider." Thank you sideways for your pointers, and asked carefully: "Dare to ask my sister's rank under Master Qingluan?" Qiyu said: "In the future, you can call me Sixth Sister. There are six people who formally worship under the master's door in Wenxiu Workshop. , there are about thirty other named apprentices." Side side wondered: "I heard from Xiehua that Master Qingluan is not very old, why are there so many disciples?" Qiyu sighed: "The owner of the workshop learned needlework at the age of five, entered the workshop at the age of nine, and became famous at the age of eleven. Even the Queen Mother in the palace knew her embroidery name. When she was twelve years old, she was accused by the previous owner of the workshop. As the successor, she took over the Wenxiu Workshop at the age of fifteen. We started following her one after another after she became the owner of the workshop. Although we are similar in age, our knowledge is far behind, and you will understand when you meet her." She paused and said: "I was ordered by the elder sister to deliver the dragon robe. I must go and return quickly. If you don't understand, just ask now. I can't delay." Handed a map embroidered with gold thread, " This is embroidered by me, after your filial piety is over, you can follow the road to Wenxiufang to find me, and I will introduce you to the owner of the workshop." "Thank you Sixth Sister for your trouble. There are indeed many things that I don't understand. It's just that my father taught me that if I can solve the problems myself, I will never forget them in my life. Please forgive Sixth Sister for being stubborn. I want to try it myself." Qiyu looked at her slender body in surprise, with arrogance on her brows, she couldn't help nodding her head and said, "It's no wonder that you have such thoughts, it's worth having two masters recommending you. Well, I will send someone to send Si to you someday." The looms are here, Chenxiang Valley may not have all these exquisite materials, so don’t refuse.” She mounted her horse and looked back meaningfully, “I’m waiting for you at Wenxiufang, so I’ll take my leave!” With a deep bow from side to side, the beautiful jade left in the dust. The summer wind of the Northern Wilderness sweeps over the lush green hills and rolls on the travelers who have traveled long distances.The sun rose even higher, and Yan Hua, who had been driving the car for several days, felt very bored, flicked the reins and shrank into the car, and fell into a deep sleep, leaving Ziyan alone outside.The camels in the caravan couldn't move fast, they looked like they were strolling in a garden, Ziyan had to slow down and whipped them every so often, the weather became more and more sweltering. It was easy to see the tent village in the distance, accompanied by a green river, the camels seemed to be refreshed, and they walked like flying, and rushed to the place in an instant.Ziyan tied up the carriage, called her up, and sat down by the river.The grass was covered with shoes, and Yanhua washed her face, looked at the leader with the mustache, and said to Ziyan distressedly: "Why doesn't he just sell me the spices?" Mustache was talking to a man in gray at the side of the tent. At this moment, he glanced at the two of them and said, "Did he hear me?" Say what.The water is rippling, and the shadows of the white clouds float up and down lightly, and the depressed mood is relieved accordingly. When the caravan set off again, Yu Hua got into the car wearily, and there was no movement of Zi Yan driving for a long time.She was waiting impatiently in the carriage, and when she looked up, there was a group of people standing in front of the carriage, blocking the way.Zi Yan turned her head and shrugged, said: "These people are so strange, they told me to go with them." Yanhua smiled and said: "To rob money or to rob sex?" Piao Ran flashed out of the car, sat next to Zi Yan, and found the gray-clothed man among the oncoming people, and asked him, "If you pass here, do you have to pay the toll?" ?” The gray-clothed man shook his head, babbling for a long while, and then he could hear some Beihuang language such as “I spent money” in it, and then carefully looked at the expressions of the group of people around him, and said in a daze: “Are we Sold by Mustache?" Ziyan said "Ah", looked at her and smiled, "It makes sense." Yanhua didn't look sideways, she still smiled calmly, and said lightly with her mouth: "What should I do? Escape?" Ziyan said: "If you don't escape, You're going to stay and be someone's wife." After speaking, he suddenly raised the whip in his hand, and called out, "Where's your incense?" He was startled by his sudden arrival, and stared at him, but spread the incense in his hands like dust, boiling up into the air, blown by the wind, and scattered on everyone.Seeing this, Ziyan lashed down with a long whip, and the four horses raised their hooves vigorously, forcing a way out of the crowd.Seeing that he was about to break out of the encirclement, the man in gray rushed forward holding his breath, his lasso in his hand was like the mouth of a hungry wolf, and he opened his mouth wide to bite one of the horses' heads. The carriage was stopped by Shengsheng, and Yan Hua eagerly turned around and took the saber from the carriage, and stretched out his arms to cut the rope.The man in gray kicked her with his left leg and hit her wrist, throwing his saber high.Seeing helplessness, Yanhua took out a few incense pills with the other hand, and flicked them all on the man's face.The two were too close, the man in gray couldn't avoid it, and when he was about to hold his breath, he couldn't catch his breath, so he took two deep breaths, which hit the target of Yanhua's technique. Yanhua pushed the man in gray off his horse, took the opportunity to jump out of the carriage and untied the noose, and said to Ziyan, "Go!" Others in the tent ran out one after another to check what happened. Ziyan waited for her to get into the carriage. After a few whips, he drove the horse forward at full speed. The two had never tried to escape like this before, and after a mile or two, they saw that there was no one chasing after them, so they relaxed and looked at each other and laughed. "Moustache's caravan is just ahead." Zi Yan pointed at the whip, and Yan Hua stopped smiling, solemnly restrained her face and waved the whip, showing a steadfast posture.The four horses trampled on the ground and caught up with the caravan like lightning, and the mustache rode on the camel happily, turning a blind eye to the road. Yanhua's eyebrows furrowed angrily, and she shouted loudly, "You dare to sell even us, you are so courageous!" The mustache gave her a cold look, showing no sign of embarrassment, and drove the camel forward slowly.Yan Hua was taken aback, he didn't run away after doing such things, the speed of the caravan was no different from usual. "Aren't you back?" Mustache said slowly, rubbing the corners of his eyes that were blown by the wind and sand, and yawned lazily, "You two are worth twenty gold, not bad." Yuhua said angrily: "Hey, my chariots and horses alone cost more than thirty gold." The mustache said: "Well, I want to give the buyers a little bit of sweetness. You see, they seem to have picked up treasures and come in groups. Inspection." Ziyan finally laughed out loud, and Yanhua looked a little hesitant, and stretched out her hand, "Here, we have worked hard, and we will share half." The little beard glared at her, and wanted to refuse, but thought that they were catching up very quickly, and they were quite tricky, so he smiled and took out a dozen taels of gold and threw it in Yuhua's hands, "Girl, there are good people ahead, how about a price?" Higher, sell it again?" "Unless you sell you!" Yan Hua rolled his eyes at him, waved his whip, and drove the horse past the caravan. Ziyan snickered to herself, and Yuhua said: "If he provokes me again, I'll stun him with incense and snatch the spice away." Ziyan said, "Hey, this is a good idea." He said proudly: "Forget it, it's rare that I have a kind heart, and I will never act recklessly until the last moment. Hmph, I have seen many princes and nobles, are these street people afraid that they won't be able to handle it?" Zi Yan whispered: "It's hard to say." In the evening, everyone arrived at Suye City. There are four majestic gates and orderly streets and alleys. There are several majestic temples on the mountains to the west, and grottoes are built against the mountains. It looks magnificent from a distance.There are mostly brick houses in the city, occasionally felt tents, there are earthen houses for pedestrians to rest, and there is an endless stream of horses, mules, donkeys and camels.Although it is dinner time, there is no smoke in the residents' residences, and they all buy food in the shops. The streets are full of lanterns, and it is very lively. After the caravan entered the city, they chose a place to eat, and Ziyan and Yanhua also entered the shop.The guests on the seat were all brightly dressed, emerald embroidered gold belts, and they only grabbed food with their hands, which seemed indecent to the two of them.Seeing that the caravan with mustaches was well dressed, the store owner immediately greeted them hospitablely and offered several large plates of meat. Yanhua also ordered a portion, the meat was tender and never greasy, she praised it repeatedly, and then asked Ziyan: "Why don't you eat it?" : "Unfortunately, this dish is so delicious. By the way, boss, what kind of dish is this?" "Peacock meat!" The shopkeeper said without raising his head. Yan Hua was stunned for a moment. It is true that she loves delicacies from mountains and seas, but the peacock is something she treasures, and it became a meal on the plate. She wished she could vomit it.Ziyan picked out a plate of agate pomegranates, looked at the crystal clear ones, and said to herself: "It's rare that the fruits here ripen early." Picking up a piece, she chewed slowly.Yanhua pushed away the peacock meat, eagerly took half of a pomegranate, frowned, and started to eat. After swallowing a few, she shouted, "Shopkeeper, here are two cheese cakes!" It was night, Ziyan and Yanhua slept in separate rooms, and the people in the caravan lived in the same hotel.He loves to be clean, so he smoked the mattress with the freshly bought rose dew until the room was full of fragrance.The pigeons in the cage couldn't help cooing non-stop. Yanhua lifted the cage and threw it into Ziyan's room, and then fell asleep peacefully. Sleeping soundly until early morning, the door panel was slapped loudly, she woke up sleepily and opened the door, Ziyan was already dressed, she pulled her and walked out of the house. "What's the matter?" Yan Huafeng's eyes were half-opened, still in a sweet dream. "The caravan and our carriage are gone." Ziyan's words were more effective than nightmares, and Yuhua squeezed his hand tightly and said, "We were sold by him again?" Ziyan thought for a while and said: "That's not necessarily the case. I saw the store just now, and they didn't intend to take us in. They just said that they were in a hurry and left first. It can be seen that Mustache is merciful. But he did take the carriage away. The important thing is that we were dumped by him." He led Yan Hua to the stables, which were empty except for a riding whip with a purple face hanging on it. As the cool night wind blew, Yuhua looked left and right, and said in a daze, "We don't know the way... that mustache!" She smiled angrily, and regained her usual composure, "Hmph, the country of Sheath Su is Beibei after all. There are many people who know Fang Heji in the famous and famous country, I don’t believe that he will not be found by then. Go back to the house and sleep, and chase after dawn when you have the strength.” She shook her embroidered skirt, stretched her waist and walked back to the house go. Zi Yan smiled slightly and called her: "Hey, that mustache, what will happen if you find him?" "Tell him to die." Yu Hua became more and more sleepy, and Zi Yan heard her plop down on the bed, so sleepy that she forgot to close the door.He smiled lightly, closed the door for her, thought of what Xiao Huzi had done, and thought to himself: "This person might as well make friends." After Qiyu left, she stayed in the Fushui Pavilion all day, looking through classics, exploring various dragon robe embroidery methods such as sprinkler embroidery and Na embroidery, as well as techniques such as inlaying and rolling, and gold weaving.Chen Xiangzi and Zi Yan had a lot of clothes, she picked out the ones with similar embroidery patterns and put them together with the dragon robes, and kept them close at hand to figure out.She flipped through the embroidery manuals of Wenxiufang, and was often confused by the patterns and colors. She was distracted for a while, and sighed that her fingering skills were not enough.At this moment, Ziyan's confident smile faintly appeared on the brand-new brocade clothes in her mind. Thinking of that smile, her frown frown again. After more than 20 days, the brocade embroidery thread for weaving and embroidering the dragon robes and the frame flower machine were sent from Wenxiufang. She was startled when she saw the huge wooden machine from the side, and it was not the style she was familiar with in the past. .After the visitor left, I sat sideways in front of the wooden machine like a flower building, thinking of the words in "The Fu on the Machine Woman" that "the slender and quiet woman, with the meridian network, swaying and tolerant, and the posture of pitching", manipulated this Waiting for a huge wooden loom requires two people to work together to weave and weave flowers, which cannot be done by one person anyway. If the Jacquard machine is not used, and the entire dragon robe is embroidered purely by oneself, it will take more than two years of labor.Thinking silently from the side, the etiquette law stipulates three years of filial piety, but the actual days are only twenty-five months, and she has to complete the work within a limited time, shortening the time limit to two years. The dragon robe held in her arms seemed to be laughing at her whimsy, and the bright and flowing patterns shone arrogantly. The next day, he came back from the grave sideways, wanting to make a new style of dragon robe.When she entered the door, her footsteps stopped suddenly, and she saw that the house was in a mess, the dragon robe material was scattered everywhere, the sewn pearls rolled in a mess in the corner, and the beautiful warp and weft were cut off and turned into a mess.Her soul went out of her body for a while, and she couldn't move for a long time. Picking up the broken brocade with heartache, she remembered the cat meowing she heard last night, and a sound rang in her heart, like sharp cutting away her complacency.She suddenly thought of the pigeon left by Ziyan, and looked up to see that the birdcage was safely hung on the beam without any damage.Feeling relieved, she reluctantly put the two pieces of brocade together in her hands. The crooked crack was like a merciless mockery, which made her lose the courage to face it. After a long time, she touched her cold face and tried to stand up, only to realize that she had slumped on the ground, her legs were sore and numb.Helping the table legs to get up slowly, the whole person seemed to have lost too much blood, and he staggered and rushed half a step.She stood still in a hurry, and her mind slowly began to wake up. Without a sample of the dragon robe, how would she make a new dress? Standing sideways blankly, this feeling of being at a loss has been there before.That was the time when the enemy attacked Chenxiang Valley, she was in a panic and didn't know what she could do, only Ziyan ran forward to eliminate the disaster invisible.Why is he so calm when things happen?Thinking of this sideways, my flustered heart calmed down a bit, and I touched the corner of the table and sat down. The fragments of the dragon robe that were stitched together on the table vaguely showed the original magnificence of Lingluo Jinxiu.Her heart was like a tide, flashing the memories of the scales and claws: the shining sun, moon and stars, the mountains that shocked the world, the wise dragon... The twelve chapters of strange and colorful patterns are vivid and picturesque in front of her eyes. She walked to her father's room by chance, and took from the agate cabinet high-quality white silk, Langhao clothing pattern pen, glass stone inkstone and Longxiang ink, and various colors of stone blue, gamboge, silver vermilion, and lacquer green, and used a paperweight. Press the silk well, and draw everything in your heart. The tip of the hair is dyed with a bright and beautiful color, and the texture of the dragon robe, which is as thin as silk hair, is redrawn from the side.As if something is pulling, every thread and thread, every inch touched by her hand, is deftly reproduced in her pen. Chen Xiangzi is good at calligraphy and painting, and she has learned some basic skills since she was a child. Although she seldom paints after falling in love with female celebrities, her painting skills are still there.The restoration picture of this dragon robe cannot be said to be exactly the same as the original, but it looks like a copy of the garment at a glance, and the tailoring pattern is not bad. When the sun was setting, I had painted most of the dragon robe sideways, and when I tried to stand up straight, I was already as stiff as a dead branch, and it creaked when I moved a little, and my stomach was rumbling like a frog.She quickly dropped the pen, ate some dry food, and walked back to the front of the painting to take a closer look. She suddenly recalled what Chen Xiangzi said before he was alive, that his father's skills in swordsmanship, calligraphy and painting for decades, all of them became a disguise in the end, so what about her?To make the weaving and embroidery skills to a higher level, this hand Danqing can't be left behind.She clenched her fists involuntarily, as if she wanted to promise something to her father's spirit in heaven, her eyes shone with determination. Lighting up the celadon glazed perforated lamp, she continued to paint the dragon robe bit by bit under the clear light, like a golden shuttle, weaving a glowing robe.Painting like this until late at night, not only does he not feel mentally tired, but the more he paints, the clearer he becomes, as if he has seen the heart of a dragon robe weaver. The moonlight penetrates into the house like water, and a heart on the side is crystal clear like ice and snow.In the silence, she suddenly heard a long sigh, and she finally drew the dragon robe with the collar and narrow sleeves.The sky in the summer night is so peaceful and far away. After she finished the last stroke, it was as if she herself had turned into a colorful dragon, swimming in the clouds of gold-woven brocade.Looking up suddenly, she in the sala tree mirror is covered with delicate red and light pink, soft green and soft blue paints. In the dark night, she looks like an elf who has strayed into the world, with a funny and playful appearance. She chuckled, carefully put the painting away in the crystal box, and groped for the "first string" fragrance left by Yu Hua from the case, put it in the printed three-legged stove and lit it, and went to bed with peace of mind.The room was filled with the fragrance of laurel trees in the middle of the moon. In the dream, her body was wrapped in a dragon robe paved with emerald green threads, stirring up the exquisite thoughts of her daughter's family.